California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police Reports(eff.org)

110 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 15 comments

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing(eff.org)

91 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | 42 comments

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data(eff.org)

1428 points by JKCalhoun 9 months ago | 941 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that ICE is using a Palantir tool that draws on Medicaid data for immigration enforcement.

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs(eff.org)

561 points by gslin 11 months ago | 320 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable(eff.org)

506 points by iamnothere 11 months ago | 70 comments

EFF article by Joe Mullin arguing that proposed USPTO rule changes would make it much harder to challenge bad patents.